Tell el-Amarna - Houses

The Sikket el-Sultan, the track which runs south from El-Tell to El-Hag Qandil, leads to the excavated part of the ancient city, which was traversed by three main streets running north-south and a number of crossstreets. The ground plans of many houses can still be clearly identified. Particularly notable are the House of the Vizier Nakht, the House of the High Priest Pewoh, a very typical example of the house of a high official, and the House of the Sculptor Tuthmosis, with workshops, in which many fine pieces of sculpture were found (now in the museums of Cairo and East and West Berlin). Here, too, was found the famous painted limestone bust of Nefertiti, Akhenaten's beautiful Queen, which is now in the Egyptian Museum in West Berlin